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“I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.”

Littles Shows Bigs Light Used Wish Felt Animal Missing Used To Be Canvas Elegant Circus Tents Hay Sawdust

Author:Francis Lawrence

“I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?”

Knows Body Sex Felt Sin Animal Relationship Taboo Cool Status

Book:Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

“I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.”

Men Kind Persons States Use Able Given Felt Animal Magic Perfection Justify Capability Intervention Given Up

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.”

Men Heart Has Beens Hands Lasts Suffering Felt Hours Animal Known Heard Dog Masters Creatures Stones Agony Remorse Caress Notorious Operators Vivisection Heart Of Stone

Author:Charles Darwin

“We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.”

Thinking Trying Children Littles Ideas Wanted Felt Bits Animal Fellows Tiny Cute Mice Do The Best Charlie Indebted Chaplin Wistfulness

Author:Walt Disney

“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.”

Humans Made Hands Felt Differences Human Beings Answers Animal Brain Curiosity Size Respectable

Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, its no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.”

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Author:Michael Vick

“I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.”

Men Mind Firsts Would Be Running Felt Animal Watches Clear Masters Grew Empires Heels Oppressed Apocalypse Persuasion Passed Away Martians

Book:H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

Source: H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

“I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.”

Inspirational Motivational Faces Felt Animal Mines Expression Cat Pet Touching Cheeks Claws Expressions Of Love

Author:James Herriot

“I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.”

Home Felt Animal Sadness Wall Sat Shelves Closets Stuffed Animal

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'”

Men Want Firsts Felt Animal Compassion Limits Paradise Amusing Blunders

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche